People
Meet the faculty and students whose research and work advance the Sustainability Design Lab’s mission.
Faculty leads
Johanna Barthmaier-Payne is a landscape architect whose work addresses the relationships between urban infrastructure, placemaking and communication around environmental systems and public space design. She is a cofounder of A TON, a multidisciplinary design studio in Rhode Island that focuses on landscape, industrial and graphic design within the public realm. Her current research focuses on outreach communication tools and strategic planning around large-scale environmental management and green infrastructure for municipalities, stakeholders and community members.
A teacher at RISD for many years, Wolfgang Max Rudorf is a licensed Architect in Massachusetts and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-accredited professional, concentrating in his practice on the interface between the architectural and engineering disciplines. Responsible for the design and construction of large adaptive reuse projects, affordable housing projects, and the preservation of historic landmarks in the United States and Germany, he is an adamant supporter of an integrated project delivery method.
Studio faculty
Tiago Torres-Campos is a Portuguese landscape architect whose work explores multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary landscapes and complex territories. His interests focus on intersections between landscape practice and the Anthropocene as well as issues of landscape representation. His experimental work ranges from modeling and digital fabrication to video production and speculative writing. Torres-Campos is the founder of CNTXT Studio, a research-by-design platform focusing on the transdisciplinary study of landscape.
Eduardo Benamor Duarte is a member of OA Portuguese Architects Association / Ordem dos Arquitectos. In 2009 he founded his studio, Benamor Duarte Architecture, which focuses on design of objects and spatial environments at large. His recent projects engage form in programs that range from installations for public spaces to ceramic building blocks to home furniture and landscapes determined by infrastructural systems for renewable energies. Duarte’s work has been published in a number of international magazines and has won awards from several institutions in Portugal and the US, including the Ministério da Cultura - Direcção Geral das Artes, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and RISD.
Get to know RISD
Offering a two- and three-year degree option, the MLA provides a rich context for you to learn the discipline alongside a community engaged in a diverse range of creative and critical practices.
Our Master of Arts and two Master of Design programs offer distinct pathways toward professional practice and expertise in your chosen area of the Interior Architecture field.
Our partnership with the University of Rhode Island’s Master of Marine Affairs (MMA) program enhances the MLA degree with studies in coastal and marine social science, economics, policy, planning and law.